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NIPS '07 Workshop on Music, Brain and Cognition
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Modeling and Visualizing Tonality in North Indian Classical Music

author: Parag Chordia, Music Technology Group, Georgia Institute of Technology

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North Indian classical music (NICM) is based on raag, a melodic structure within which musicians improvise. Raags define hierarchical pitch relationships that can be described as tonal. The study of tonality in raag music may help to elucidate whether a cross-culturally valid cognitive model of tonal perception exists. We describe a basic model of tonality in raag music based on pitch-class distributions. We derive visualizations of tonal raag spaces based on self-organizing maps trained on pitch-class distributions calculated on actual performances, as well theoretically derived maps. We discuss implications of the theory and visualizations, as well as anticipated empirical verifications of the model.

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Slides
0:00 Tonality in Raag Music
0:16 Objectives
0:36 Motivation
1:04 What Is Raag?
3:18 A Simple Model of Tonality
4:26 Visualizing Raag
5:51 Empirical Prototype Raag Map
6:47 Empirical Segment-Based
7:10 Sub-Raag Structure (Malkauns)
7:35 Discussion
8:21 - Questions

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